I have started this blog mainly for the upcoming cruise, but have found it to be a fun thing. We have been very fortunate to be able to travel to many places, but would like to feel like friends and family are experiencing it with us. Hopefully, this will give you a chance to see as we go, so you don't have to get bored with all of our photos when we get home!!!

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

I NEED THIS!!!!

I am working on a project and have come to realize how incredibly valuable my blog is--NO, NOT TO ANYONE ELSE BUT ME. And I do not have a problem with that at all.

The blog has been an amazing resource to finding memories, dates, and valuable information. With that in mind, I am starting up again. I don't have a lot of time, but this will be a place for me to put quotes, thoughts, ideas, recipes, photos, and things I may need a year or two down the road. So it will mainly be random things. But, there may be an occasional BRILLIANT IDEA. (Like maybe one every 2 or 3 or so years!!!!)

With that in mind, here goes a couple of random thoughts, etc.

I love teaching online Seminary. The other night we had a lesson on Doctrine and Covenants 76. It was great to be able to share my testimony of the Savior and to hear the students share their thoughts. These youth continue to amaze me.

You know I am a goal person. One of my daughters-in-law wrote this post: Faith: Tending the Garden and I would encourage you to read it. Some great thoughts.

I am loving having Allan home on a more regular basis. I feel bad because he hasn't been feeling well. Finally he has turned the corner and is almost back to his old self.

Can I tell you how disturbing I find some of the shows that are on TV. I probably shouldn't name them here but I think of my parents and how SHOCKED they would be with what gets on TV today. Of course, you have to remember when they were alive Ricky and Lucy had to sleep in separate beds, and not only were they married on the show, but they were married in real life!!!

The other night we had a friend come over for dinner and he wanted to bring a DVD of an old TV episode. It was Perry Mason. It was so fun to watch, but I do have to laugh when I think about the scenes of the car driving along the road--hysterical!

Over the past few weeks, I have made this dessert and I have to tell you it is fast becoming one of my favorites--all it needs is a little chocolate:

Berry Trifle

8 oz softened cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

1 cup sour cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp almond extract

1 1/2 cup heavy cream

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 T powdered sugar

1 angel food cake cut into 1 1/2 inch cubes

2 quarts fresh berries or peaches thickly sliced (make sure to dry the fruit so the cake doesn't get soggy)

3/4 T sugar

whole berries for garnish

In a large mixing bowl, blend cream cheese and 1 c. powdered sugar together. Add the sour cream, 1 tsp vanilla and almond extract. In a small bowl whip heavy cream with the rest of the vanilla and powdered sugar until stiff. Fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture. Add mixture to the cake cube till you get the desired consistency. (It varies according to the size of the trifle bowl)

Thickly slice the berries then add sugar, mix well. Layer into a trifle bowl, starting with a layer of berries; then the cake mixture. Continue layering ending with the berries. Cover with plastic wrap and chill well before serving.

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Welcome to my blog. The main reason I created this blog was to record trips so that family and friends could see where we were. It has become much more. I love making memories and sharing them with others.

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MY GOAL

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." --Ephesians 4:31-32